Driver cut free after crash with stationary National Highways van near Stansted Airport

A driver was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a stationary National Highways van in a work zone.

Police, ambulance and fire crews were called to the crash, which happened last night (February 5) on the M11 close to the junction for Stansted Airport in Essex.

Firefighters said the car had collided with a stationary road protection vehicle.

The driver had to be cut free from the car after it crashed into a National Highways van. Credit: Newport Fire Station

A stretch of the M11 was closed for around three hours while a rescue operation took place to free the trapped driver.

Crews from the nearby Newport Fire Station, in Saffron Walden, said: "We quickly got to work stabilising the vehicles while administering first aid to the trapped driver.

"We then used hydraulic cutting equipment to extricate the trapped driver from the car.

"This involved multiple agencies coming together, HEMS flying doctors, paramedics, police and highways traffic officers also attended this serious collision."

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